Interactive `tramp-find-file' command

[Reiner Steib]

Hi,

I think tramp's file name syntax is quite hard to remember, especially
for beginners and occasional tramp users.  WIBNI there was an
interactive command prompting for tramp method, hostname, username and
filename and translates the user input into the correct filename
syntax (depending on the Emacs flavor)?

A sketch for a `tramp-find-file' command could look like this:

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;;;###autoload
(defun tramp-find-file (method host user file &optional wildcards)
  ;; doc string
  (interactive
   (list
    (completing-read "Method: "
                     '(;; (info "(tramp)External transfer methods")
                       "rcp" "rsh"
                       "scp" "ssh"
                       "rsync"
                       "scpx"
                       "pscp" "plink"
                       "fsh" "fcp"
                       "ftp"
                       "smb"
                       ;; (info "(tramp)Multi-hop Methods")
                       "telnet" "su" "sudo")
                     nil t
                     tramp-default-method nil
                     tramp-default-method)
    ;; Add suitable completing here:
    (completing-read "Remote host: " nil)
    (completing-read "Remote user name: " nil)
    (completing-read "File: " nil)))
  (let (filename)
    ;; Construct correct `filename' from `method', `host', `user' and `file'
    ;; depending on Emacs flavor.
    ;;
    ;; Make the result available to the user in a minibuffer prompt so (s)he
    ;; can learn the file name syntax and edit it.  Put the resulting
    ;; (confirmed) filename into the file name history.
    (find-file filename wildcards)))

;; Maybe...  (defalias 'find-remote-file 'tramp-find-file)
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Bye, Reiner.
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